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0. W. STAUSS. Reed Ceiling.

No. 231,114. Patented Aug. 10,1880.

INVENTOR N1 PETERS. FHOTmLITHOGRAPNE'R, WASHINGTON. D. (L

PATENT DEEICE.

CARL W. STAUSS, OF GOLTBUS, PRUSSIA, GERMANY.

REED CEILING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,114, dated August10, 1880.

Application filed May 31 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL WVILHELM STAUSS, of Coltbus, inPrussia,Germany, have invented a new and Improved Reed Ceiling, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved reed ceilingwhich is very light and durable and simple in construction.

The invention consists in a ceiling formed of two adjoining layers ofcoarse and fine netting made of longitudinal reeds and transverse wires,which nettings are attached to strips nailed to the .under side of thefloorbeams and are then covered with plaster, which fills up the spacesbetween the coarse netting and the under side of the tine netting.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a cross-sectional elevation ofmy improved ceiling. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same, showing the underside of the coarse reed netting; Fig. 3 is a detail cross-sectionalelevation of my improved ceiling showing the relative positions of thecoarse and the fine netting.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A series of thin wooden strips, A A, are attached to the under side ofthe floor-beams B B, about six to eight inches apart, and to thesestrips A A the ceiling is attached.

The ceiling is formed of a layer, 0, of fine reed and wire netting and acoarse layer, D, of the same material. The layer 0 is composed of anumber of thin reeds, E E, arranged parallel and adjoining each other,which reeds are united by small wires a, laid alternately above a reedand under the transverse wires F, whose ends are secured to the stripsA, whereas the layer D is composed of coarse reeds J, arranged paralleland a short distance apart, and are likewise connected by small wiresI), laid alternately above a reed and under the transverse wires G,whose ends are also secured to the strips A. As the layers 0 and D canonly be attached to the strips A A by means of (N0 model.)

nails or screws that catch in the wires F and G, the said wires must bearranged the same distance apart as the strips A A, for a nail driventhrough the reeds only will not be sufficient to hold the ceiling. Thelayer 0 is first attached to strips A A by small nails H, and then thelayer D is placed against the same and is secured by longer nails Kdriven into the strips A. The plaster L is then applied to the layer D,and is forced in between the reeds J, and a part of it is forced inbetween the thin reeds E E; but as these reeds lie very close, but asmall quantity of the plaster can be forced through the space betweenthem. The object of this fine layer 0 is "to prevent quantities ofplaster from being forced through the space between the reeds, and thusforming a dead weight, which impairs the solidity of the ceiling.

The strips A A may be made of metal, if desired, and the layers 0 and Dmay be attached thereto in any other suitable manner by means of wires,screws or hooks, or the layers 0 and D may be attached directly to thebeams B B.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A ceiling constructed, substantially as hereinshown and described, of a coarse and a fine netting of reeds, to whichthe plaster is applied, as set forth.

2. In a ceiling, the combination, with the strips A, of the fine nettingG, the coarse netting D, and the plaster L, substantially as hereinshown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

The [above specification of my invention signed by me this 13th day ofDecember, 1879.

CARL WILHELM STAUSS.

Witnesses:

J. O. ZIMMERMAN, FRANZ ScHUL'rzE.

